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Sto caricando le informazioni... What Are You Going Through: A Novel (originale 2020; edizione 2020)di Sigrid Nunez (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I liked the writing and descriptions chosen better than the content of this book, which at times was tedious. However, it was so interesting that I was very interested in many of the characters. This is also the type of book that makes me wonder what I would do if I were in the situations of many of the characters. The many chaaracters are two women, one of whom realizes that she does not want to suffer through her terminal illness. Thought this was going to be short stories when it came up on my list. It's not, it's basically linked essays about anticipatory grief, which would be enough to make me put it down immediately for about 15 years. It's notable that I finished the book, and that I found it thoughtful and engaging. I took pictures of a dozen pages probably. My favorite, favorite is the speech about 'warriors' in the 'battle' against cancer; I wish people could recognize that cruelty. J’ai parfois le chic pour choisir mes lectures… J’en étais à peu près aux deux tiers de ce livre, qui parle d’accompagner un proche atteint d’une maladie incurable, lorsque j’ai appris le décès d’un membre de ma famille, un départ que l’on savait imminent, mais cela ne rend pas les choses plus faciles. C’est aussi pour cela que j’ai mis du temps à écrire cette note de lecture, c’était un peu compliqué de le faire à chaud. Vues les conditions, ma lecture n’a bien sûr pas été neutre et c’est pour cela qu’il me semble nécessaire d’écrire ce préambule même s’il n’a rien de littéraire. Ce roman, d’une autrice plutôt prolifique mais dont je n’avais encore jamais rien lu, pourrait être classé dans cette drôle de catégorie que j’ai vue mentionnée ici ou là des romans universitaires. Il ne se passe pas à proprement parlé dans le milieu universitaire, mais les protagonistes sont manifestement tous des intellectuels, qui vivent de leur capacité à produire du savoir et de la réflexion, et cela se retrouve dans leur façon d’interagir en émaillant par exemple leurs échanges de références philosophiques, littéraires ou cinématographiques. Ce n’est pas un genre que j’affectionne particulièrement d’ordinaire, mais cela ne m’a pas dérangé ici et j’ai réussi assez rapidement à me sentir proche de ces personnages et notamment de la narratrice. Il faut bien le dire, il ne se passe pas grand chose dans ce livre, il s’agit plutôt d’une longue et lente méditation sur la mort (et le choix de sa mort), sur la vieillesse, sur le sens de la vie (être dans le monde, transmettre, avoir des enfants...)… Des sujets lourds, et en général traités de façon pessimiste, mais avec une certaine tendresse pour les personnages qui m’a plu et m’a touchée. Ce roman ne plaira donc pas à tout le monde, il faut accepter son rythme lent et son côté un peu intello, il faut être prêt aussi à se sentir un peu démoralisé, à se demander « à quoi bon tout cela » (je parle de la vie ici, pas du livre), « tout ça pour ça, vraiment ? »… Mais sous son épaisse couche de pessimisme et de tristesse apparente, il se dégage de ce livre une sorte de tendresse résignée peinte en petites touches à peine perceptibles qui, si on arrive à les percevoir, enveloppent le lecteur comme dans un mince coton d’ouate qui rend toute cette âpre réalité un tout petit moins rugueuse et un tout petit peu plus supportable. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own. In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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― Simone Weil
The first half of the book deals mostly with the narrator's attendance at a lecture on the inevitable end of the world and then an amalgam of anecdotes as she meets people who tell her of their suffering. This section moved slowly. The latter half of the book is her attendance on a friend with terminal cancer who is intent on euthanasia and I responded more to this section, in fact laughed out loud at some of its incongruities like the flood, or:
"Flaubert: To think is to suffer.
Aristotle: To perceive is to suffer.
Hitchcock: Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
Sylvester the Cat: Sufferin' succotash."
The philosophical topics are meaty and many on the decimation of earth, illness, death, friendship and animals' role in our lives. Some consider it a companion piece to [b:The Friend|40164365|The Friend|Sigrid Nunez|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1544364669l/40164365._SY75_.jpg|56847766] as it deals with similar topics of friendship and death.
There's not much plot nor even characterization, but I enjoyed the literary references, the quotidian activities caring for each other, the author's telling how to sit with a terminal friend as the earth too is dying. ( )